Sukha: an all-in-one focus app and distraction blocker for Mac, Windows and Chromebook, and a full flow state app for focus and healthy productivity

• Sukha is a complete flow state app, giving you all the tools to drop into flow, whereas most traditional tools are single-feature focus apps.
• Single-feature apps (like standalone Pomodoro timers or website blockers) require you to manually build your own focus environment piece-by-piece.
• Flow state apps likes Sukha automatically integrate neuroscience-backed music, task management, distraction blocking, and AI coaching into one seamless system to trigger your flow state.

1. Cobble together a bunch of old-school single-feature apps.

2. Use a fully-featured, modern flow state app like Sukha.

Nah. I hate apps that bombard you with ads and emails to buy their upsells and add-ons.

With Sukha, you get to try EVERYTHING for 3 days free. If you continue as a member, you get EVERY FEATURE.

No emails, no in-app banners, nothing.

Just you, focusing.

Yes. Lots of stuff.

I'm kidding.

The world we live in is crazy distracting. You'd have to be blind and deaf not to be distracted by all the lights and sounds coming from your phone and laptop.

Sukha's here to help with that. Not by making you blind and deaf. By silencing all that noise for a golden hour or two every day.

No. I'm not a doctor. If you think you've got something going on, go get checked. I did — I was medically diagnosed with ADHD as an adult.

Didn't actually change much other than give me an 'ohhhhhhh THAT explains a lot' moment which was really funny for my wife to witness.

Boy do I feel you on this one.

I checked 41 focus websites out recently and all of them look like their marketing teams went into ChatGPT over lunch and typed: “My corporate overlord told me to make a new website...ideally use some bold, sans-serif font to make all the same promises as everyone else — ‘save time’ ‘focus better’ ‘get more done’ ‘etc.’ Oh — and if my boss likes it, ship it and tell her I did it.”

If Tony & I hadn't created Sukha, I don't know how I'd choose.

We really wanted Sukha to stand apart — to create a new category of complete flow state apps. I know we'll get copied, but for now we're a category of 1.

With Sukha, we wanted a one-button-get-us-into-a-Flow-State, not a “open a music app, turn on desktop focus mode, silence our phone, open my task manager app and a timer app, etc.” every time we wanted to get in the Zone. (Remember: we're lazy)

Is the document in a language you understand? That's always a good place to start.

Ok, but seriously — that loop usually comes from a task that feels too big or too undefined for your brain to grab onto, so you retreat to something smaller and finishable (my word).

The escape to your phone is the symptom of a target your mind couldn't lock onto.

Shrinking the work to one clear, achievable next step is what stops the loop, which is one of the conditions Sukha is built around. Wanna break a big task down or make it more clearly defined? Ask your AI assistant. My peabrain likes having one simple thing to get done at a time.

A lot of our members do, and so do I (diagnosed as an adult - I wrote about this above, in case you were paying attention, which is hard when you have ADHD, which is Attention DefiHeyWhatAreYouEating Disorder).

Real disclaimer first, because you deserve better than marketing copy on this one: Sukha is not a medical tool and it doesn't treat anything. I'm a guy who makes software, not a doctor. Go see an actual professional.

What I can tell you is that the stuff that makes focus hardest for my brain is the exact stuff we built Sukha to take off my plate:

• Task paralysis. When the thing is too big or too vague to start, the AI coach breaks it into one specific next step, so you're not staring at “WRITE Q3 STRATEGY” like it's a threat.
• Executive function overhead. Pick the task, close the tabs, find the music, set the timer. That's four decisions before you've done a single minute of actual work. Sukha is one click.
• The distraction that shows up at minute twelve. Blocked on your computer and your phone before it ever reaches you, with lofi and binaural focus music running so your attention has something steady to hold onto.

And the accountability is gentle on purpose. Streaks and points, not a drill sergeant. Nobody has ever been shamed into focusing, and I say that as someone who has tried to shame himself into focusing roughly nine thous-hey, what are you eating?

Dying to procrastinate read more? Sukha for ADHD

Let's be clear: Cal Newport is a god.

The concept label “Deep Work” is his, not ours. Cal Newport made the case for it in his book, and time-blocking, protected hours and guarding your cognitive bandwidth all come out of that argument rather than out of our marketing.

I've only spoken to Cal once and to be clear - I'm 99% sure he doesn't remember me. While I'd love to be presenting ‘Cal Newport’s Sukha,’ the reality is that he didn't advise us directly on building this. He just wrote a ton of stuff that we think is spot-on and helpful.

What we built is what that argument looks like as one button: instead of reading about protecting a block of time and then assembling the protection yourself out of four apps, you click once and the block is protected.

A lot of other apps have descriptive names that relate to their features: we “brick” your phone, we block websites “cold turkey,” etc.

Sure, we could have called this “flow state app #9”...but really, Sukha is named after what we want for you - it means “happiness” in Sanskrit. It's not about a feature, it's about a feeling.

The happiness you feel from doing your work with ease and being back in control of your day. It feels amazing.

Sukha is free to try for three days, no commitment required, so you can test it on your actual work before deciding.

Getting started takes less than 10 seconds: click any gold “Start” button, sign up with your email, and you get the full Pro version for 3 days with unlimited sessions.

You love it?  $20/month or $400/lifetime.  You're a student or poor?  Just email me and I'll cut you a discount.  Tony & I are in this to help you live a better life, not get rich.

And if Sukha doesn't help you? Cancel and all your data are deleted. (yes, “data” is a plural noun. There's that copy editor instinct again. Same need to show off my grammar skills that annoys my wife over dinner. Go me.)

Absolutely you can put off this decision. You are a grown adult and I am not your mother (I checked Ancestry.com).

You’re probably reading a focus app website because you AREN’T thinking that you could use a great focus app. No matter, your three days free are here for you.

And as the famous saying goes (famous because I just said it): the price is $20 a month, but the cost of not deciding is wasting a little of your life every single day starting now.

Bookmark us. We’ll leave the lights on for you.

It helps to build a habit: the more you practice dropping into a flow state, the more easily you can access it, so start each workday by pressing Play before you begin.

Research shows it takes about 20 minutes to drop in, so try Sukha when you have a real task that'll take 30–60 minutes.

Then look up when you're done and notice how much you got through — and how you feel.

Hells yes.

If you scrolled down this far, you're not looking for a focus app - you're procrastinating. You should be watching a comedy channel on YouTube. Or checking out our new webtoon: “Confessions of a Distracted Founder.”